Students are given a clear zip lock bag containing crushed ice cubes. They must compete to see who can melt their ice the fastest using any strategy they deem apprpriate Activity 2 : Gas Demonstration

Children will explore the process of transformation of liquid to a gas. Teachers will drop an antacid into the remaining liquid of the ice melt competition and allow students to observe what happens next!Activity 3 : Slime Play

Children will experiment with the properties of both a solid and a liquidWater Conservation Posters!2. So what is Education for Sustainability?

Education that builds community capacity to shape a future that is more sustainable in biophysical, social, political and economic dimensions. – Tilbury (1995)

Classification cards: In pairs students will be given picture cards of every day examples of states of matter and have to classify them as either a liquid, gas or solid.

Activity 3: The Water Wasters

Teachers will role play various scenarios where characters of the 'Water Wasters' Family, waste water during every day activities. students will have the opportunity to jump into the scene and demonstrate what the character can do differently to save water!

Australian ClimateLesson 3Activity 3: Food Chain Illustrations

Students then draw their food chains using images, words and arrows.

Activity 1: Warm up Game!Teachers will lead a warm up game, requiring students to move around. Teachers will then lead discussion asking students; Where do we get our energy from? Teachers will make the connections to the importance of food and water for the survival of living things Activity 2: Food ChainStudents attempt to rearrange the jumbled picture cards to complete a sequential food chain - demonstrating the flow of energy from one organism to the nextHow can we make water conservation relevant to children ?Appropriate language Understanding water usage behaviors Providing a range of approaches

Activity 4: Group Reflection

In a circle, students and teachers will re-visit the activities and ideas presented through out the 3 lessons. Students will have the opportunity to provide feedback of what they did/did not enjoy and what they learned.

WHAT IS MATTER?

Matter is:a material substance that constitutes the observable universe and, together with energy, forms the basis of all objective phenomena

Encyclopaedia Britannica (2004)

Energy is: (in physics), the capacity for doing work. It may exist in various forms such as potential, kinetic, thermal, electrical, chemical, nuclear. There are, also, heat and work—(for example energy in the process of transfer from one body to another). All forms of energy are associated with motion (for example, any given body has kinetic energy if it is in motion).

Physical sciencesThe way objects move depends on a variety of factors, including their size and shape (ACSSU005) • Nature and Development of ScienceScience involves exploring and observing the world using the senses (ACSHE013) • Questioning/predictingRespond to questions about familiar objects and events (ACSIS014)

Planning and conductingExplore and make observations by using the senses (ACSIS011)

Processing and Analyzing Engage in discussions about observations and use methods such as drawing to represent ideas (ACSIS233)

The warmest year that has ever been recorded since records began in 1910 was 2013.The total rainfall that was recorded for 2013 was 428mm, 37 mm below the average of 465mm.WHAT IS ENERGY?Rainfall was above average for parts of the Pilbara, south coast of Western Australia and the east coast of Tasmania. Melbourne's Dam storage levels last year were recorded at 74.0%, currently we are sitting at 74.2%.There has been a gradual decrease of water usage/consumption since the 1990's 3 LESSON OVERVIEW

Melbourne Water(2011)Australian Government - Meteorology (2014)

Activity: ‘Ice melt’

Children learn how ice can melt fastest through manipulating ice in a particular way (e.g, rubbing it together to create energy and heat). These are vital first steps in understanding matter and energy in it’s larger and more complex form, later in education.LESSON 1STATES OF MATTER AND THEIR PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTESLESSON 2WATER CONSERVATION

The second lesson interweaves the importance of water into education for sustainability, and allows children to identify where we can change our behaviours in order to allow for water conservation to take place.

LESSON 3 ENERGY FOOD CHAINS

The third lesson has a focus on how life cannot exist without water (interweaving their knowledge of matter, into the food-chain and eco-system).It shows how water is a vital part of the ecosystem and food chain.